Putin's big bet on the Global South century (www.intellinews.com)
Nicaragua’s case may or may not prevail. We already know it was brilliantly argued and it will put Germany to shame forever. (tarikcyrilamar.substack.com)
Turkey moves to restrict key exports to Israel under domestic pressure (www.ft.com)
The country’s trade ministry said on Tuesday that it would curb exports of 54 goods, including metals products, fuels and oils, and construction machinery, a day after Turkey’s foreign minister accused Israel of impeding attempts to airlift aid to “starving Gazans”. ⠀...
US pushes ASML to deny maintenance in China (asiatimes.com)
Alan Estavez, US undersecretary of commerce for industry and security, will meet with officials and ASML executives in the Netherlands on Monday and raise the servicing contract matter with them, according to a Reuters report....
Ecuador ex-VP Jorge Glas hospitalised after capture from Mexico embassy (www.aljazeera.com)
‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges (www.theguardian.com)
For months, aid groups have struggled to get food to an estimated 300,000 people in northern Gaza, where the world’s global authority on food security recently predicted a famine was either already happening or would begin before July....
El Salvador offers 5,000 passports to skilled foreign workers (edition.cnn.com)
China's top coal province Shanxi to cut output for first time in seven years (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14229239...
The European defense industry is running short of nitrocellulose, which is needed to make ammunition. (www.ft.com)
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Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
Does the AKP’s Resounding Defeat Spell the End of Erdoğan? (www.thenation.com)
Advocates blast Vatican's new position on gender-affirming surgery as 'dangerously ignorant' (www.cbc.ca)
It's total solar eclipse day and Quebec has won the weather lottery (www.cbc.ca)
New Zealand tightens visa rules after migration hits ‘unsustainable’ levels (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid (www.businessinsider.com)
Why Yellen’s reflation pleas fall flat in Beijing — What she is advocating is a strategy that Japan has been pursuing for 25-plus years with mediocre success (asiatimes.com)
The People’s Bank of China is devising a program to provide as much as 500 billion yuan (US$69 billion) to support innovation in science and technology....
Trust Index 2023 to 2024: Developing Countries Lead on Trust (media.mas.to)
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Nicaragua to ICJ: End Germany’s support of Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Will China flood globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight (mainichi.jp)
China has sharply ramped up its production of cheap electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries just as the Biden administration has pushed through legislation supporting many of those same industries in the United States. ⠀...
International leaders condemn Ecuador after police break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito (apnews.com)
María Dolores Miño, director of Ecuador’s independent Law and Justice Observatory and a law professor at the International University of Ecuador, said the raid was not only “extremely embarrassing” for Ecuador but also opens up the possibility of serious repercussions....
Development is the best contraceptive (www.kaggle.com)
An illegal war with Houthis isn't stopping the Red Sea crisis (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Although the White House has insisted that President Biden has the legal authority to take military action against the Houthis, several members of Congress have refuted its claims. At a Senate hearing in February, several senators called attention to the War Powers Resolution, which establishes that the president cannot continue...
Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi army (thegrayzone.com)
In the latest episode of the US “telling” China what to do: (www.cnbc.com)
The US and the West’s in general’s economy has been reliant on low cost manufacturing in the PRC for over 50 years and now Janet Yellen is conveniently instructing them not to “dump cheap products into the market, driving down prices.” Of course the Middle Kingdom have no reason nor incentive and the West’s vague...
‘We Jews are just arrested; Palestinians are beaten’: Protesters in Germany (www.aljazeera.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14203860...
